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Take-over Bids: Cic Comments
IN most cases mergers or take-1over bids are a normal and beneficial process in the development of industry; more competitive markets prompt organisation into larger units......
Imprisoned Bishop Ill B Ishop Dominic Tang, S.j.,...
Canton. in prison since February, 1958. is afflicted with beriberi, which is caused by a vitamin deficiency or malnutrition. It is characterized by swelling of the body and the......
' Show Trial' For Cuba Priests
Two priests, Fathers Pedro Betancourt and Francisco Lopez Velasquez, are among 381 alleged counter-revolutionaries who are the subject of a show trial in Cuba organised by the......
Youngest Mayor
When Councillor Peter Smith, aged 34, becomes Mayor of Brackley, Northants, next month, he will be the town's youngest-ever Mayor, and the first Catholic to hold the office......
Save Our Standards: Glasgow Teachers' Cry
By Frank MacMILLAN HE strike of Glasgow teachers due to take place on May 8, failing certain guarantees as to conditions of service and salary negotiations by the Secretary of......
Pastorals For All
Bishop Bekkers of Herzogenbusch, in Holland, has decided that in future he will not have his pastoral letters read out in the churches, but will post copies to all Catholic......
Seventeen Spires
We are having a spate of puzzle pictures. Most of them turn out to be something to do with the latest architectural gimmicks— some wise, some otherwise . . This one shows......
Sixpenny Tickets Got
her to Lourdes A NINE-YEAR-OLD handicapped girl from Weymouth, Dorset, has just returned from a pilgrimage to Lourdes which was made possible by hundreds of sixpences collected......
This Isn't A Budget Problem
By J. Quinn, B.Sc. (Econ.) T HIS year the economic commentators are stymied: they do not know what advice to offer the Chancellor for his budget! And they are absolutely right.......
Champion Babies
Four minute miler champion Herb Elliott, and British heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper have each been presented with a son. Both Elliott and Cooper are Catholics. Cooper......
Racks (painless) For The Martyrs
P ORTABLE pamphlet racks which can be used at special functions connected with the Forty Martyrs can now be obtained from the of f ice of the Vice-Postulation at 31 Farm Street,......